Big Data Cultivation

For Feng Jun, interstellar travel is actually quite boring because most of the time is spent traveling.

Luan Xiong doesn’t think so, because in his long Cultivation Path career, closing off the world for a hundred years is normal. It’s not that he’s stopped thinking, but that he’s searching for a sense of emptiness—a decades-long emptiness, just to find a slight fluctuation. Strange, isn’t it?

But Feng Jun can’t do it now; his mind is very active. In most cases, it’s difficult to completely empty his mind—perhaps only during a breakthrough does he make an exception.

So in these twelve days, he felt quite tormented, and in fact, he couldn’t wait any longer. Over in Xiajing City, Ninth Brother also promised results within fifteen days.

While on the road, Luan Xiong True Sage heard him mention this matter, so he said, "Fine, go take care of your business first. When you’re no longer busy, bring Tuotuo to find me. I won’t have any problems."

Feng Jun clasped his hands and then disappeared. When he arrived in Xiajing, it was exactly midnight in Xiajing.

He went to the metal recycling station, took away the production line and raw materials that had been there for over ten days, and left twenty thousand tons of energy blocks.

Ninth Brother didn’t lie, he already had the access key to the mall, along with the corresponding location map and route plan.

So, Feng Jun smoothly made his way to the underground parking lot of the mall and searched for nearby surveillance devices—sure enough, there were none.

In fact, how could a parking lot not have surveillance? It’s not just about the possibility of someone stealing cars. Even if someone steals items from cars, it would put the mall at a disadvantage. More often, concern is about vehicles getting scratched and not finding the perpetrator, which can be very troublesome.

However, now... Turning off surveillance wouldn’t have much impact. There were only a few cars in the parking lot, and that was the case even during the day.

Feng Jun specifically used some half-baked invisibility techniques to take a look, discovering that the parking lot actually had four zones.

But the access he got probably only led to three zones. The channel to the other zone was directly locked by a metal gate.

Xiajing City’s second-largest mall after the biggest one is really quite large. The area above ground alone covers more than thirty thousand square meters, not to mention a nearby office building, which would be over fifty thousand square meters.

The office building and the mall belong to the same organization; the ground-level parking lot exceeds thirty thousand square meters, while the underground parking lot spans four levels, exceeding two hundred thousand square meters.

Don’t think the parking lot is too large. When the mall had its highest footfall, it once exceeded two hundred thousand people in a day, meaning at least eighty thousand hover cars—these days, who doesn’t own a few hover cars?

The area occupied by one hover car... Including access and clearance, isn’t considering five square meters per car quite reasonable?

Anyway, the mall allocated three zones to Feng Jun, which is fifteen thousand square meters in total, with a height of nearly five meters. Storing sixty thousand tons of energy blocks there is basically no problem.

Feng Jun observed carefully, confirmed that there were no surveillance facilities, and then left after placing down sixty thousand tons of energy blocks.

As he left, he silently mused to himself—the grassroots can sometimes be more reliable than the prominent figures.

He Runxian from Hesheng is considered quite a character, but when providing a storage area, he couldn’t help but play a little trick.

However, the grassroots people, once they decide not to involve themselves in something, will absolutely not interfere. After making a promise to him, they even lowered the shutter door. That’s genuine credibility. Ninth Brother is credible, and so is the businesswoman.

But in fact, he neglected one point, which is that Ninth Brother and the businesswoman... have vaguely guessed his origin.

The events in Zuo Jing City aren’t entirely known in Xiajing City. But such a significant event... It’s too normal for the two of them, with their skills, to find something out, plus a little bit of small conjecture, and it’s all sorted out.

However, in a sense, Feng Jun was right. He Runxian may be a manager of big capitalists, pursuing profits, but doesn’t have much courage to fight to the death when it matters most.

The businesswoman is running her own business. She calls the shots. When her own industry is at the brink of life and death, she wouldn’t mind doing business with the Devil, so why would she care about the trading partner’s identity?

And Ninth Brother is a real social figure, even doing some borderline illegal business, and among those rough-and-tumble circles, you’ve got to have principles!

Therefore, the types they represent are indeed different from He Runxian, and also different from those of a pioneering bank.

Strictly speaking, there is still some manipulation in the parking lot, although nothing major; it’s just that the parking lot has weighbridges—a lot of trucks deliver goods to the mall, so having a weighbridge at the entrance and exit to prevent any tricks is very normal, right?

The parking lot discreetly did some extra tweaks, installing weighbridges at certain parking slots, but only superficially disguising them so you couldn’t tell.

In fact, Feng Jun had encountered this kind of situation before. Once he took away the goods, he would trigger a heavy-pressure switch, alerting the supplier with a beep—’Your goods have been collected.’

This time it’s a bit different; after Feng Jun placed down the goods, the mall side received the alert.

Beep~ A parking spot has been taken... Beep~ Another parking spot has been taken.

Beep~ Beep~ Beep~ Beep~ Beep...

Late at night, the boss lady had just finished overseeing the repair of the outer wall and was lying in bed for less than ten minutes when she was nudged awake by her sister’s message, "Sis... the lockdown zone delivery has arrived."

Lockdown zone and such are just code phrases, no need to elaborate, the key point is... new energy blocks have come in again!

The boss lady sprang up instantly... If you’re talking about this, it’s truly not that I’m not sleepy, but rather that I dare not sleep!

The mall’s defense depends heavily on energy blocks, needing at least three hundred tons per day, whereas Hesheng’s production base in Zuo Jing only spends five hundred tons of energy stones on shields each day.

But how big is her mall, and how big is Hesheng’s production base? Merely in terms of area, the mall including office buildings and greenery maxes out at eighty thousand square meters, while Hesheng’s production base exceeds eight hundred thousand square meters.

What does eight hundred thousand square meters mean? Almost a square kilometer.

Hesheng is in Zuo Jing, even if it’s on the outskirts, Zuo Jing is way better than Xiajing.

The mall isn’t far from the center of Xiajing City, currently, Xiajing is under siege, resulting in especially high depletion, thus daily consumption of energy stones can reach three hundred tons or more.

The boss lady recently brought back thirty thousand tons of energy stones, which supposedly can last roughly a hundred days, but the Insect Race is very sensitive to the energy stones’ aura—don’t be fooled by the seemingly silly Insect Race constantly attacking the mall, actually... who doesn’t have experts backing them?

After the mall acquired the energy stones, the intensity of the Insect Race’s attacks noticeably increased, which puzzled the boss lady; she initially speculated: is there an Insect Race spy in the company?

Yet later on, some people gradually informed her, the Insect Race’s sensitivity to energy stones is far greater than that of the Human Race, especially Valenkov explained clearly—those who think the Insect Race is foolish, are themselves foolish.

The Insect Race has opposed humanity for more than three thousand years; if they were truly foolish, they would have been wiped out by humanity long ago—humanity has destroyed countless cosmic races since breaking planetary shackles.

This answer neatly explained Feng Jun’s recent question—why has the Insect Race intensified attacks on the mall?

Because they can sense the threat from this place has increased, whether it’s due to the energy blocks, nobody can say for sure, but... the Insect Race’s intuition comes from divine inspiration, it doesn’t adhere to reason.

The boss lady isn’t certain if Valenkov is right, but she thinks, these seasoned veterans’ words wouldn’t be too far off the mark, and the mall isn’t short on such veterans, not just Valenkov, everyone is saying the same.

But that’s just details, the core issue is, ever since she brought back some energy blocks, the mall has indeed faced increased attacks, these days the energy costs for the shield are nearing four hundred tons of energy blocks daily.

Four hundred tons is just for the mall’s everyday expenses, there are other unexpected costs not included, so thirty thousand tons of energy blocks can’t even sustain a hundred days, can she not be anxious?

The boss lady knows the mysterious trader will deliver sixty thousand tons of energy blocks next time, although she has an agreement with the Chen Clan Association that she cannot keep all sixty thousand tons, having half is already enough.

Even though she’s purchasing this half at triple the price, can energy stones currently be bought at ten times the price on Xingzheng Star?

It’s not a matter of price, but rather there’s simply no stock in the market.

These are tangents, the boss lady heard the goods might have arrived, so she couldn’t sleep anymore, yet she doesn’t dare check the goods—what if the other party thinks I’m surveilling him, there’s truly no reasoning for that.

So she can only endure, all the way until dawn breaks, then she calls Ninth Brother, "Ninth Brother, are you up? The insects are about to invade, you’re still sleeping?"

"I started drinking in the latter half of the night," Ninth Brother is an honest man, saying it as it is, he slurs, "I haven’t slept yet, Sister Qin, whatever you have to say... you’re the big boss, your intention is our intention."

"What I’m looking to discuss isn’t this," the boss lady is both frustrated and annoyed, I’m here cautious and apprehensive, yet you’re outside indulging in pleasures? "I was just wondering if you checked your underground warehouse?"

Ninth Brother was indeed having fun outside, but hearing this, he sobered up instantly, "This... has it arrived?"

These past ten plus days have been torturous for him too, the last time the other party sent over slightly more than a hundred thousand tons of energy stones, it took just one night, yet he transported the production line and raw materials, waited over ten nights, and no one came to collect the goods.

This clearly isn’t due to transportation issues, Ninth Brother is anxious to the point of sleepless nights, if not for having received the payment early, he would suspect if the other party was scheming something.

Five days ago the Insect Race’s accidental attack punched a big hole in the underground warehouse, though it didn’t damage the production line, just destroyed a bit of raw material. He repaired the warehouse that night, yet can’t help complaining: why haven’t they come to collect the goods?

Receiving this news now, truly brings him unexpected joy.